On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 3:27 AM, Andre Engels <andreengels(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 7:23 AM, Roan Kattouw
<roan.kattouw(a)gmail.com> wrote:
When the Italians did their blackout, Google
asked us to block them
(!) from bits.wm.o (our JS/CSS domain), which in the specific case of
the Italian blackout had the effect of not honoring the blackout at
all.
I'm guessing we'd probably have to block search engines from enwiki
entirely to avoid the blackout screwing things up, yeah.
It seems Google has advised to serve a 503 (Service unavailable) HTTP
code during blackouts to avoid them influencing their search engine.